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Ash Wednesday: Different look, same message


Feb. 2, 2021
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON  Ash Wednesday, as with many other things right now, will have a different look at many Catholic parishes across the United States this year.
For starters, Catholic churches that are often standing-room only on this day drawing crowds just short of the Easter and Christmas congregations will be at their pandemic-restricted size limits with members of the congregation spread out in socially distanced seating.
Other Catholics will be watching the livestream Mass, as they have been for much of the pandemic, and will of course, not receive ashes.
Last year s Ash Wednesday Masses Feb. 26 were celebrated just weeks before the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States, so church services and social media posts of people s ashes followed the usual tradition. It wasn t until the third week of Lent that dioceses began lifting Sunday Mass obligations and temporarily stopping public Masses. ....

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